Audience Quote by Rae Armantrout

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to…

— Martha Ronk

When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about it: "Nobody…

— Eileen Myles

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

— Tom Glazer

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

— Sonia Sanchez

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple…

— Bo Burnham

I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession but the…

— Charles Bukowski

What writing a poem really does - and what figuring how to perform effectively really does - is forces people to listen to you.…

— Daveed Diggs

These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.

— Sara Genn

I think that if poetry is not a personal act, it's a pamphlet.

— Maria Teresa Horta

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what…

— Allen Ginsberg

It is no use thinking that writing of poems - the actual writing - can accommodate itself to a social setting, even the most…

— Mary Oliver